no proliferation of Porsche 911s to pad out the fields like there are now
no proliferation of Porsche 911s to pad out the fields like there are now
Check this Allcomers line-up.
Rothmans National Motor Race Meeting, Feb 26th 1966
(The last two Reserves were Terry Scott and Ross Douglas from Morrinsville. )
Ken H
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There you go Kev, the very next post and you are in print!
Interesting that by 1966 the majority of the Anglia’s are all running 1500 plus pre Crossflow engines. One is Zephyr powered.
Kevin Greene’s Chev Coupe is blue.
Thank Ken, it is pure gold.
Bruce
Interesting just how many cars then, were of British origin. No Australian cars - though maybe some were built there?
All Cortinas and Mini Cooper S s compliant, but I thought that MSNZ was looking to FIA Group 5 for 1968
Great field of wild Zephyrs and Anglias
So Kevin.......how was your A90 eligible to race and to get points and the Cortinas and Minis not, was it your multi carb non factory set up?
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My point exactly, , so why was there this segregation in 1966, in 67 I could see the reason.
Historic Saloons-
The 1966 season saw two separate championships take place alongside one-another. With the Allcomers being the headline act, MSNZ introduced a second championship, for FIA Group 2 touring cars. Group 2 regulations were already in wide-spread use throughout the world, and used for the British Saloon Car Championship, European Touring Car Championship, numerous European national championships, and were also used as the basis for the Improved Production regulations used in the Australian Touring Car Championship. Furthermore, the Sports Car Club of America established a new sedan racing championship in 1966 which it called the Trans-American Sedan Championship, or Trans-Am, for short. The SCCA used FIA Group 2 regulations for the Trans-Am.
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I am sorry to have opened a "can of worms" everyone.
Will I be banned from entering NZ again on Fri. 16 th with Judy ?
(Ken H)
This is when we really miss our late David McKinney., he would have the answer to my question at his fingertips, and about Kens......................tell us the Airport and arrival time and the "lads" will be there to welcome you again, no cherries though, season has finished.
Ahhhh, so long as its not 6.45 am again
The Aussies were racing their "Humpties" ,Ray
Only Aussie car here was Graeme Harveys "Golden Holden", also a Humpty.
Falcons were not seen as racing then, EH-S2, HD-X2, HR-X2 were raced over there, but not here
Some standard model Holdens were in B&H
Carlos Neate won in a Nissan Skyline GT here though
Really no Aussies till 1968- after Allcomers- Grady Thomson winning the Heatway Rally, then Glenvale 100
Finally, I think I got it sussed, no probs if I am shown to be wrong.....
2 simultaneous championships until 1977, then became Shellsport Series.
A-So there was Allcomers being part of New Zealand Saloon Champion-
1970 Red Dawson (Ford Mustang)
Rod Coppins (Chevrolet Camaro)
1969 Paul Fahey (Ford Mustang)
1968 Roger Anderson (Mini Cooper)
1967 Robbie Francevic (Custaxie)..........Allcomer
1966 Dave Simpson (Lotus-Anglia).........Allcomer
1965 Paul Fahey (Ford Lotus-Cortina)
1964 Kerry Grant (Ford Cortina GT)
1963 Ray Archibald (Jaguar 3.8)
1962 Ray Archibald (Jaguar 3.8)
1961 Ross Jensen (Jaguar 3.8)
1960 Harold Heasley (Humber 80).
Performance Developments congratulates Paul Fahey as the winner of the National Gold Star Championship...62 points out of 70- Thanks Spagetti for this gem
B-FIA Group 2 then becoming Group 5 were in New Zealand Saloon Championship- Unlimited Class-
1970 Red Dawson (Ford Mustang)
Rod Coppins (Chevrolet Camaro)
1969 Paul Fahey (Ford Mustang)
1968 Paul Fahey (Ford Mustang)
1967 Frank Bryan (Ford Mustang)
1966 Ivan Segedin (Ford Mustang)
This from MSNZ page on discontinued race series.
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[and about Kens......................tell us the Airport and arrival time and the "lads" will be there to welcome you again, no cherries though, season has finished.
Ahhhh, so long as its not 6.45 am again[/QUOTE]
John,
We appreciate the offer but we are getting a rental and heading off on a pretty tight schedule, weather permitting.
Thanks,
Ken
Ken, thanks for that,went to the meeting had the programme, Feb 66. Interesting that Coppins was in the Zephyr Corvette,yet a bit later in 1966 Ken Bailey drove it,the May meeting,was a small affair as a combined Motorcycle and Car meeting, after the debacle of the ACC Reverse track meeting in April .. and may I borrow the pics and put on the NSCC thread ?? - have done so already.
The Race is for 1601 cc and over all the non-eligible are the sub 1600 cars which presumably had their own race earlier !!
Tom Grace there in his Cortina - the Man from Woodhill who was a huge supporter and a stalwart of the Club in the late 60's onwards.
also note the race distance is only 3 laps............
When I first started going there it was always full circuit.
And I was there the day in 1970 my Monaro equaled the outright lap record on the full circuit.
As overheating seemed to be an issue for these cars..looking at Morrari ...then maybe 3 laps of 2.2 miles was suitable
What we have now at Puke is not interesting to me